Rupert Davies
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Rupert Davies (22 May 1916 – 22 November 1976) was a British actor. He remains best known for playing the title role in the BBC's 1960s television adaptation of Maigret, based on the Maigret novels written by Georges Simenon.
Davies was born in Liverpool. After a service in the British Merchant Navy, during the Second World War he was a Sub-Lieutenant Observer with the Fleet Air Arm. In 1940 the Swordfish aircraft in which he was flying ditched in the sea off the Dutch Coast. Davies was captured and interned in the famous Stalag Luft III POW camp. He made three attempts to escape. All failed. It was during his captivity that he began to take part in theatre performances, entertaining his fellow prisoners.
On his release, Davies resumed his career in acting almost immediately, starring in an ex Prisoner Of War show, 'Back Home', which was hosted at the Stoll Theatre, London.
After the war Davies became a staple of British television appearing in numerous plays and series, including Quatermass II, Ivanhoe, Emergency - Ward 10, Danger Man, The Champions, Doctor at Large (1971), Arthur of the Britons and War and Peace (1972). He also provided the voice of "Professor Ian McClaine" in the Gerry Anderson series Joe 90.
In 1964 he became the first person to be awarded Pipe Smoker of the Year.
Davies also played supporting roles in many films, appearing briefly as George Smiley in The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1965). He also appeared in several horror films in the late 1960s, including Witchfinder General (1968) and Dracula Has Risen from the Grave (1968), as well as such international blockbusters as Waterloo (1970) and Zeppelin (1971).
He died of cancer in London in 1976, leaving a wife, Jessica, and two sons, Timothy and Hogan, and is buried at Pistyll Cemetery, near Nefyn in North Wales.
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Acted in
The Many Faces of Dracula
2000
as Monsignor (archive footage)
Dracula: A Cinematic Scrapbook
1991
as Monsignor (archive footage)
Mike Leigh: Making Plays
1982
as Self (archive footage)
The After Dinner Game
1975
as Bartley Humbolt
King Arthur, the Young Warlord
1975
as Cerdig, Chief of the Saxons
Frightmare
1974
as Edmund Yates
Father Brown
1974
as Colonel Arthur Druce
Orson Welles' Great Mysteries
1973
as Lemerie
Arthur of the Britons
1972
as Cerdig
War & Peace
1972
as Count Ilya Rostov
The Man Outside
1972
Zeppelin
1971
as Captain Whitney
The Night Visitor
1971
as Mr. Clemens
The Firechasers
1971
as Prentice
Waterloo
1970
as Gordon
Play for Today
1970
as Bartley Humbolt
The Oblong Box
1969
as Joshua Kemp
Curse of the Crimson Altar
1968
as The Vicar (uncredited)
Dracula Has Risen from the Grave
1968
as Monsignor Ernst Mueller
Joe 90
1968
The Champions
1968
as Voss
Witchfinder General
1968
as John Lowes
Submarine X-1
1968
as Vice Admiral Redmayne (uncredited)
Man in a Suitcase
1967
Five Golden Dragons
1967
as Comm. Sanders
The Brides of Fu Manchu
1966
as Jules Merlin
Target for Killing
1966
as Kommissar Saadi
Maigret Plays Dirty
1966
as Maigret
The Spy Who Came In from the Cold
1965
as George Smiley
Thirty-Minute Theatre
1965
as Lomov
The Uncle
1965
as David Morton
The Big Breaker
1964
as Councillor Wally Cross
The Wednesday Play
1964
as Councillor Wally Cross
Detective
1964
as Chief Inspector Jules Maigret
Ready Steady Go!
1963
as Self
Maigret
1960
as Chief Inspector Maigret
The Criminal
1960
as Edwards
Danger Man
1960
as Colonel Graves
Danger Tomorrow
1960
as Dr. Campbell
Devil's Bait
1959
as Landlord
Sapphire
1959
as Ferris
The Thought of Tomorrow
1959
as Geoffrey Hansbury
The Third Man
1959
as Arthur Shillings
The Third Man
1959
as Insp. Arthur Shillings
Interpol Calling
1959
as Coetzee
Bobbikins
1959
John Paul Jones
1959
as British Captain
Life In Emergency Ward 10
1959
as R.S.O. Hunter
Violent Moment
1959
as Bert Glennon
Breakout
1959
as Morgan
The Invisible Man
1958
as Dushkin
Sea Fury
1958
as Bosun
The Key
1958
as Baker
Ivanhoe
1958
as Brother Gareth
Sailor of Fortune
1957
as Alphonso - Italian Ship's Engineer
The Traitor
1957
as Clinton
Armchair Theatre
1956
as Inspector Shawcross
Armchair Theatre
1956
as Banham
Armchair Theatre
1956
Armchair Theatre
1956
as Det. Insp.
Armchair Theatre
1956
as Geoffrey Hansbury
Armchair Theatre
1956
as Ramon Cintos
Armchair Theatre
1956
as Miffin
Quatermass II
1955
as Vincent Broadhead
The Adventures of Robin Hood
1955
as Simon Dexter
Folio
1955
as Canoris
Lilli Palmer Theatre
1955
The Dark Avenger
1955
as Sir John
The Angel with the Trumpet
1950
as Policeman
Sunday Night Theatre
1950
as Day-watchman
Sunday Night Theatre
1950
as Mr. Page
Sunday Night Theatre
1950
as Thompson
Sunday Night Theatre
1950
as Wing Commander
Sunday Night Theatre
1950
as Alec Roper
Sunday Night Theatre
1950
as Oderbruch
Sunday Night Theatre
1950
as Thomas Cromwell
Sunday Night Theatre
1950
as Maurice Szeps
Sunday Night Theatre
1950
as Frontier guard
Sunday Night Theatre
1950
as Walters
Sunday Night Theatre
1950
as Gabriel Mirabeau
Health in Our Time
1948